10/2

• An Indonesian soccer stadium crush left at least 125 people dead. After the home team, Arema, lost the game, fans stormed the field, which caused the Indonesian police to fire tear gas. The tear gas led to a stampede, and most causes of death were determined to be from suffocation or trampling.
• In response to the Iranian internet censorship, protestors have been handing out paper leaflets with organized demonstrations and government opposition declarations.
• Ukraine gained total control of Lyman (see 10/1).
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency has organized its largest ever search-and-rescue operation in Florida following Hurricane Ian.
• President Biden announced the return of 7 Americans, who were detained in Venezuela for years.
• Brazil’s leftwing presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is leading in the polls against current President Jair Bolsonaro.

10/3

• The end of a six-month ceasefire occurring in Yemen has led to the country’s return to war. According to analysts, the reentry initiated after Yemen’s ongoing humanitarian crisis has not improved
• Leftist former Brazilian President Lula da Silva won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. Da Silva and current president Bolsonaro will compete in a runoff vote at the end of the month due to the close results (see 10/2).
• The death toll of Hurricane Ian has increased to 87 victims as the search-and-rescue operation continues (see 10/2).
• Kim Kardashian must pay $1.26 million for not mentioning that her Instagram post about EMAX tokens was a paid promotion, reported the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kardashian was paid $250,000 for the advertisement, which she will return in addition to the fine.
• An investigation has been launched to uncover wrongdoings committed during the Indonesian soccer game crush (see 10/2), says Indonesia’s chief security minister, Mahfud MD. The deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, Phil Robertson, demands that President Joko Widodo conduct an independent investigation to ensure full accountability.
• The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case opposing the federal ban on bump stocks, a device that allows a rifle to imitate an automatic weapon. The ban was conducted by former President Trump following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Rather than focusing on the Second Amendment, the case questioned if the Trump administration exceeded its power in prohibiting a 1986 law.
• After traveling to Puerto Rico to meet with victims, President Biden pledged to fund more than $60 million towards the damage left on Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Ian. The president ensures that the financing will be used to build structures that can endure future natural disasters.

10/4

• Ukrainian soldiers have moved from Lyman to Luhansk (see 10/2).
• North Korea has launched a ballistic missile over Japan. The United Nations bans North Korea from testing ballistic and nuclear weapons, and the United States, Japan, and South Korea have responded to the missile with military drills of their own.
• On the first day of the Oath Keepers trial, a secret recording revealed the violent premeditation for the Jan. 6 attack.
• The death count of at least 133 Iranian protesters has not stopped the demonstrations following the death of Mahsa Amini (see 9/22).
• Former President Trump filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to demand a review of part of an appeals court order regarding classified Mar-a-Lago documents.
• National Republicans defend Herschel Walker after an account made said that the Senate candidate paid for an abortion in 2009. Walker’s son, Christian Walker, responded to his father’s denial of the situation by calling him a liar and hypocrite on Twitter.
• According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Elon Musk has revived his original deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. The transaction reignites after Musk has spent months attempting to quit the deal and accuse Twitter of sharing false percentages of users who are bots. 
• The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding Alabama’s congressional redistricting plan, in relation to the Voting Rights Act. The lawsuit, conducted by a group of Black Alabama residents, asks for redrawn maps of Alabama’s 7 Congressional districts. The residents claim that their votes are being suppressed by having one majority-Black district instead of two, even though Alabama is over a quarter Black.

10/5

• Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old Iranian student, was found dead 10 days after going missing at a Tehran protest. The death has sparked fresh frustration from Iranian protesters.
• The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which is led by Russia and Saudi Arabia, announced it will reduce oil production by 2 million barrels per day. The production cut will increase worldwide gas prices, greatly risk global recession, and help Russia in its war against Ukraine. The Biden administration has made an effort to press Saudi Arabia to manufacture more oil after cutting off receiving oil from Russia. However, Saudi Arabia has rejected the attempts, giving Russia more money from oil production that can fund the Russo-Ukrainian war.
• President Biden met with Florida Governor DeSantis to discuss the next steps in helping affected areas from Hurricane Ian.
• Alec Baldwin and the family of Halyna Hutchins reached an undisclosed settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit regarding Hutchins’ death on the set of the movie “Rust.”
• U.S. 11th Circuit sided with prosecutors against former President Trump in fast-tracking the review of Mar-a-Lago documents.

10/6

• According to the Guttmacher Institute, 66 clinics across 15 U.S. states have stopped providing abortions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
• An ex-policeman has killed at least 38 people, with a minimum of 22 being children, at a Thailand preschool daycare. The massacre was followed by the murder-suicide of the killer and his family.
• Russia attacked the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with missiles, killing one woman and hospitalizing 7 others. The strikes occurred only a day after Putin federalized the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
• The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the Obama administration did not have the legal jurisdiction to create DACA in 2012. The program gave approximately 600,000 immigrants deportation protection and work permits.
• Proud Boys member Jeremy Bertino pled guilty to seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
• President Biden pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. The move is following through on Biden’s presidential campaign pledge that aimed to decriminalize marijuana.

10/7

• 2 people were killed and 6 were wounded in a stabbing attack along the Las Vegas Strip.
• Marine Colonel Nicole Mann became the first Native-American woman in space after a NASA launch on the SpaceX Falcon rocket.
• Nebraska senator Ben Sasse is departing Congress to become president of the University of Florida.
• Two new rules from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security aim to cut off Beijing’s supply of microchips, which are used in advanced computing and military applications. The rules require new export licenses to older and less advanced microchips used in Chinese companies and for U.S. companies to provide semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
• The Uvalde school district has suspended the entire district police force, following criticism of the police’s handling of the elementary school shooting.
• An Arizona appeals court blocked the enforcement of a near-total abortion ban from 1864.
• President Biden signed a classified policy, which initiates strict CIA and Pentagon rules and conducts deadly drone strikes and commando raids outside of traditional war zones.

10/8

• An explosion has destroyed part of Kerch bridge, which connects Russia and Crimea.
• 5 teenagers in a Hong Kong group seeking independence from Chinese rule were sentenced to up to 3 years in Denton at a correctional facility. The teenagers were charged for driving an “armed revolution” in a national security case.
• The Biden administration is considering the request to help the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, which will stop the blockade of fuel by armed gangs and aid the health, energy, and security emergencies.